Chapter 55: Strong Willpower

【Farmland 1 construction completed. Territory Prosperity +0.5】

【Farmland 2 construction completed. Territory Prosperity +0.5】

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【Basic defensive structures completed. Territory Prosperity +3】

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Aside from the buildings, Su You also deliberately scrolled to the very top to check the first piece of prosperity-related information, confirming the source of that earlier bit of prosperity—

【Successfully named the territory. Territory Prosperity +1】

Looks like her guess was right: changing the territory’s name does indeed grant a point of prosperity. It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing—especially since prosperity is hard to come by in the early stages, so every bit counts.

Currently, the territory’s prosperity has reached 7 points, while upgrading requires 20 points.

Besides these 20 prosperity points, the territory’s population also needs to reach 5 people to upgrade… Including Su You herself, there are exactly five people in the territory right now.

However, only Dolly has officially joined the territory so far, so on the population line, Su You currently sees: “Territory Population: 2/3.”

Increasing the population shouldn’t be difficult. If nothing unexpected happens, the brothers Lake and Lyle will probably choose to stay. If they do, then only one more person will be needed… Su You hopes that person will be Doya.

The more she gets to know Doya, the more she realizes Doya’s potential is limitless.

To be able to make it back to the territory despite such severe injuries is something most people simply couldn’t do.

As long as Doya is willing to stay, Su You is absolutely confident she can train her into an excellent archer.

But all of this will have to wait until Doya wakes up. She’s still lying there now, so there’s no point in overthinking it.

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After the basic defensive structures were finished, Su You’s tasks for the night were finally complete.

She leaned against a wooden crate, the flames of the Heart of the City burning nearby. Even though she wasn’t indoors, she felt incredibly warm and comfortable.

The Heart of the City’s fire was warm without being scorching—much more pleasant than a regular campfire.

And so, Su You spent her third night in the digitized world.

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【Residential House 2 construction completed.】

When Su You woke up, she received the notification that Residential House 2 was finished. She glanced at the newly built house, then opened the territory info panel for a look—

“Territory Prosperity: 8.4”

Huh?

Su You stared blankly at the inexplicable extra 0.4.

Normally, finishing a residential house should only add one point of prosperity. In other words, since it was 7 yesterday, it should be 8 today… Not wanting to waste time guessing, Su You simply opened the detailed prosperity info to check the reason.

【Farmland 1 crops are growing well and successfully triggered Harmony I. Territory Prosperity +0.1】

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Similar messages appeared four times in total. Aside from the farmland number, the rest of the text was identical.

So, each plot of farmland that triggers “Harmony I” grants 0.1 prosperity, and with four plots, that’s exactly 0.4.

Although the decimal looks a bit odd, any increase in prosperity is a good thing.

She didn’t remember “Harmony” ever increasing prosperity before… This must be a new change in the digitized world.

To Su You, this change seemed like it was encouraging them to develop their territory—as if the world itself wanted them to thrive here.

She still had no idea how this digitized world came to be, or why it existed, but she quietly made a mental note of this…

After figuring out the prosperity issue, Su You went to check on the crops in the farmland.

【Farmland 1】

Status: Harmony I

Plot 1: Red Berry Bush (Healthy, Growing)

Plot 2: Red Berry Bush (Lack of water, Growth halted)

Plot 3: Red Berry Bush (Healthy, Growing)

Plot 4: Red Berry Bush (Weeds present, Growth speed reduced)

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There were four farmlands in total, and each one had one or two plots with various issues—some lacked water, some had weeds, some had pests, and some weren’t getting enough sunlight.

The sunlight problem would resolve itself once the sun came up, but the other issues would need to be dealt with manually.

Since this was her first time planting, Su You hadn’t unlocked the plant encyclopedia yet, so she couldn’t see the growth countdown for these plants. But if she remembered correctly, red berry bushes took 72 hours to mature into shrubs, and 48 hours to bear their first fruit.

Of course, that’s without any growth acceleration.

With “Harmony I” in effect, they should mature into shrubs in just under 67 hours, but fruiting isn’t considered part of the growth phase, so it won’t be accelerated.

As for the other two plants Su You had planted—red grass and cotton—their maturation times were 168 hours (seven days) and 120 hours (five days), respectively.

After understanding the situation, Su You prepared to address each issue accordingly.

But just then, Dolly woke up. She came out of the residential house, saw what Su You was doing, and hurried over to stop her, insisting on handling all the farm work herself.

“Didn’t we agree that I’d take care of things here? My lady, you should focus on your own tasks—I’ll look after the farmland… Oh, and I think I just saw Doya wake up. You can go check on her.”

Seeing this, Su You didn’t insist. She briefly explained the farmland’s situation and how to deal with it, then headed to Residential House 1 to check on Doya.

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【Doya】

HP: 124/200

Status: Fracture (Recovering), Severe Injury (Recovering)

The previous bleeding and infection were gone; only the fracture and severe injury remained, both of which would take the longest to heal.

Su You had come because Dolly said Doya was awake, but it looked like she was still sleeping… It was odd—she’d recovered this much, so why hadn’t she woken up yet?

But just as Su You was about to leave, Doya’s voice suddenly sounded behind her.

“Lord Su, thank you for saving me this time…” Though she was recovering well, Doya was still weak—if you didn’t listen carefully, you’d barely hear her.

Su You glanced back at her and said, “To be precise, you saved yourself.”

Whether it was the deer antler she got from the deer she killed, or her own strong willpower that kept her going until she made it back here—both were thanks to Doya herself."

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